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Affluenza, a portmanteau of affluence and influenza, is a term used by critics of consumerism.

The book
Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic defines it as

"a painful,
contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more".[SUP]

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A potential criticism of the idea of affluenza is that it presents subjective social critique as an objective, inevitable and debilitating illness.


As a legal defense

In December 2013, State District Judge Jean Boyd sentenced a
North Texas teenager, Ethan Couch,[SUP]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affluenza#cite_note-6[/SUP] to 10 years probation for drunk driving and killing four pedestrians after his attorneys successfully argued that the teen suffered from affluenza and needed rehabilitation, and not prison.

The defendant was witnessed on
surveillance video stealing beer from a store, driving with seven passengers in his father's Ford F-350, speeding (70 MPH in a 40 MPH zone), and had a blood alcohol content of 0.24, three times the legal limit for an adult in Texas, when he was tested 3 hours after the accident.

Traces of Valium were also in his system. G. Dick Miller, a psychologist hired as an expert by the defense, testified in court that the teen was a product of affluenza and was unable to link his bad behavior with consequences due to his parents teaching him that wealth buys privilege.

The rehabilitation facility near
Newport Beach, California that the teen will be attending will cost his family $450,000.00 annually.[SUP]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affluenza#cite_note-7[/SUP][SUP]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affluenza#cite_note-8[/SUP]

Affluenza - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


 
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